Common Core State Standards Resources from NAGC

NAGC provides teachers and administrators a blueprint for differentiating the Common Core State Standards for gifted and advanced students through the use of acceleration, depth, complexity, and creativity within and across grade levels. Here are the tools to build a comprehensive, coherent, and continuous set of learning experiences for gifted and advanced students while using the CCSS.

Jean Sunde Peterson

Purdue University

Jean Sunde Peterson, Ph.D., professor emerita and former director of school counselor preparation at Purdue University, was a classroom and gifted-education teacher for many years and was involved in teacher education prior to graduate work in counseling at The University of Iowa. A licensed mental health counselor with considerable clinical experience with gifted youth and their families, she is a veteran conference presenter and conducts school-based workshops on social and emotional development of high-ability students, academic underachievement, bullying, parenting gifted children and adolescents, cultural values as related to identification of and programming for gifted youth, and prevention-oriented affective curriculum—most of these related to her practice-oriented research. She is author of Gifted at Risk: Poetic Profiles and The Essential Guide to Talking with Gifted Teens and is co-editor of Models of Counseling Gifted Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults, among over 100 journal articles, books, and invited chapters. She is a former chair of the Counseling and Guidance Network and also served two terms on the NAGC Board of Directors.

Speaker Topics:

Social and emotional development of gifted children and teens

Academic underachievement: Addressing it with new language, perspectives, and approaches